The best spiritual teachers are the people you love.
I
have a family member I dearly love who is, well, very difficult to talk to. When we talk, it’s stilted. Tense. Heartbreaking.
Everything I have tried has made it worse. I strategize and plan. I try to be closer or I try to put distance between us. I stick to safe topics or dive into the divisive ones. No matter what I do, it all falls apart until eventually, I just don’t want to talk.
Why is it so hard to talk to someone I love?
Mindfulness
has given me many tools to help out. For example, I bring acute awareness...
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